Erica Knight

Sitting on the single shelf!! My favourite quotes *I believe everything happens for a reason!* *What goes around, comes around*

[Erica Knight @EricaKnight31]

What on earth!!!!

[Joan Oller @JoanOller85]

Se habrá puesto nervioso el conductor, o quizás ha confundido los pedales, quién sabe, ese fue el relato aquí. Mucho ánimo y fuerza a los afectados del Liverpool de este terrible acto #LiverpoolFC #rcde

[Erica Knight @EricaKnight31]

@The_Oodie Plus, your response time is 8-10 working days but that wasn’t the case when I emailed last time!!

[Erica Knight @EricaKnight31]

@The_Oodie absolutely disgusted that I’ve been kept waiting for 2 weeks for a reply to an email! I ordered on 3rd November and I have had no replacement or refund! I’m now £35 out of pocket and have to wait 10 working days for you to even see my latest message! This was a gift!!!

[Erica Knight @EricaKnight31]

@The_Oodie Whilst I understand that this is a busy time for everyone, this doesn’t help that I am out of pocket and unable to buy another present due to lack of funds! I ordered in plenty of time and yet 6.5 weeks later, here I am with no gift and no refund and have less than a week!!!

[Erica Knight @EricaKnight31]

@MartinSLewis I’m 36 and still add my dad to my insurance because it brings it down! I passed my test when I was 19 and have a fab driving record so works at any age 😉

[Erica Knight @EricaKnight31]

@LoveIsland is brutal this series!!!!

[Tom Rogers @RogersHistory]

8 Reasons for abolishing OFSTED or at the very least stripping it of it’s powers….

1.Unfair judgements - as inspections last for 2 days and are done by a small group of humans (sometimes 1), the chance for unreliable judgements is high

2.OFSTED doesn’t help schools to improve - following an inspection, OFSTED doesn’t help a school or it’s staff. For example ‘this school has bad behaviour in it’ - they walk away post inspection not to be seen until the next inspection. There is no school improvement arm to OFSTED.

3.Impact or a poor grade - this links to 1 and 2, but the community impact can be as follows: a) parents don’t want to send their kids to the school (each child is worth money to the school) b) some teachers don’t want to join the school as scared off by rating c) and prob the biggest - the psychological imprint of a poor grade is something I can’t imagine having to deal with as a school leader. But what I know is - it can be devastating for an individual and their family.

https://t.co/FcRjWQf93F and budgets - HMI pay is 72,000 a year, day inspection pay is £330. OFSTED budget is £150 million a year. Bonuses are awarded to OFSTED senior leaders usually between 5000 and 20000. OFSTED haven’t disclosed what these bonuses are for. In a school funding crisis, where teachers and TAs are having to battle for relatively small increases, surely this is wrong.

5.Impact of OFSTED pressure - it won’t take you long to find examples of leaders needing healthcare as a result of the pressure of upcoming inspection. Grades can be career defining but, as previously mentioned, are not reliable. The lottery of ‘who you get through the door’ and ‘what their lines of enquiry might be’ causes uncertainty, doubt and stress.

6.‘Doing it for OFSTED’ - OFSTED say no one should do anything for them which is easy for them to say when their own careers don’t rest on OFSTEDs judgements. Schools feel they need to ‘do’ all the time - new policies, new protocols, to ‘keep up’ with other schools and OFSTED themselves. The competition culture OFSTED inspires is damaging.

7.There are alternatives - the grading system doesn’t have to exist, neither does the OFSTED inspection system. Other countries do things very differently - take Italy, Ireland, Finland and Germany as just a few examples very close to home. It can’t possibly be argued that the English education system is better off than any of these by employing the system it does.

8.There is no evidence everything would fall apart without OFSTED - what’s the harm in giving it a try for a year or two? What’s the harm in a 5 year experiment - no OFSTED gradings whatsoever for 5 years and then survey schools, parents and children to find out about what’s changed for them positive or negative?

[Erica Knight @EricaKnight31]

😂😂

[calli🧸 @Calliedoylex]

Literal just received an order from @OfficialPLT and someone’s car key is actually in the pocket 🤣. 1. Someone’s clearly had this on? And 2. They haven’t even opened the return to check for anything, jacket could’ve been damaged or anything 🤮🤮

[Erica Knight @EricaKnight31]

Just an observation… the difference between this gen and mine. We’d get a call and had to sit on the stairs, attached by a phone cord, whispering into the phone so that our parents didn’t hear. This generation, walk around with their calls on loudspeaker 🙈 makes me chuckle 🤭

[Erica Knight @EricaKnight31]

@JayTAT2 Nah, her feet were too big 😂

[Erica Knight @EricaKnight31]

@DonnaDlm71 I really hate it when someone just lets the door slam in your face! It’s just manners, absolutely nothing else in it, apart from being respectful!

[Erica Knight @EricaKnight31]

@LDNHumsTeacher Thank you so much for sharing!

[Erica Knight @EricaKnight31]

@SoVeryBritish Cheese snaps

[Erica Knight @EricaKnight31]

The Sunday feeling is real… been a long time since I’ve felt like this….

[Erica Knight @EricaKnight31]

@lucyj2004 It did exactly the same to me!!! I’m so mad! I can’t ever get through now 🤦🏽‍♀️

[Cam 🇪🇸 @cameronclark_98]

I swear the whole of the UK are in a virtual queue right now... how British 😂#peterkaytour

[Erica Knight @EricaKnight31]

So I’m in a queue, for a queue!!! It let me through on one of them and then threw me out at 10am and started this again. Not cool!!! @peterkay_co_uk #peterkaytour

[Erica Knight @EricaKnight31]

I used to promote #Evri but my last two parcels that have been delivered by them haven’t come next day when I’ve paid extra to get it the next day 🤬 I’m now joining the #EvriHateGang

[Erica Knight @EricaKnight31]

@ItsJose88 @UberFacts Oops 35 here!!

[Erica Knight @EricaKnight31]

Two days ago, I’d never heard a single song by #MachineGunKelly. Last night, I went to see him at #Birmingham and it was a pretty good night ☺️